What’s stopping us from using the api to post all of reddit here in a massive one-time merger?

Obviously the Lemmy devs would have to do it, but would there be legal issues? I think it would solve most of the problems with Lemmy, really.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it should definitely be done by a community, that would absolutely make things make sense, we need a bot that automatically scrapes and posts.

    The biggest thing stopping people from using lemmy seems to be content missing, if we can overcome that we’d change the game.

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        1 year ago

        I think what would be best is just doing it once, so that we can access all the content, but we move forward as a separate website, what do you think of that?

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            1 year ago

            Honestly, I wouldn’t know where to begin, but if someone would be willing to help me, I don’t see why not!

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                1 year ago

                I might be able to do it for just my favorite communities, but yeah the big 20tb issue taking weeks is a dealbreaker for one person doing ALL of it.

                But if there was a way to make it easy to mirror a subreddit for an individual who owns a lemmy community… then maybe we could get something to work.

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                    1 year ago

                    I’m actually banned from that subreddit hahaha, but if I don’t forget i’ll try to set this up on wednesday, i’ll do r/herpetology